[humanmarkup] TC Meeting

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Len,

Is there any chance you could attend tomorrow's TC teleconference? 
One of the items on the agenda is going to be the question of 
formally asking for a gathering of requirements from our applications 
area for elements, attributes and datatypes that we need to consider 
for interoperability and useability.

These are not design questions at this stage, just gathering 
information, which we need to do if we want our language to be 
useful. This became important in the context of considering 
interoperability which just happened to coincide with the OASIS 
Interoperability Conference in Orlando this last weekend. We are 
waiting to hear what conclusions may been come to in the conference, 
but regardless, we do need to ask our designated audiences--the app 
makers and users of existing codification systems, what we need to 
do, or perhaps most importantly what we need to not do to avoid 
conflicts and confusion of terms and data.

The notion is that we charge you, as our Invited Expert, with 
formulating a plan to proceed with the first basic XML Schema after 
this information has been gathered--hopefully also gathering some 
reliable volunteers along the way.

I'm not optimistic about that latter, based on my own experience, but 
we owe it to ourselves to try, eh?

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Let me know, please if you can't make it, and have issues you want 
represented. Specifically, would it be useful to you for us to try to 
arrange to have you subscribed to the TC list? It seems only logical, 
since you are going to be conducting work, the details of which, 
might very well bore comment's list reader to tears, and would 
certainly give the impression to potential members who drop in as 
newcomers, that we are a bunch of propeller-topped dome heads, or in 
my case, bone heads.

Ciao,
Rex
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